About Me

Lauren Elkin is a PhD candidate in English literature at the Université de Paris VII and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Originally from New York, she has lived in Paris on and off since 1999 and continuously since 2004. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and her work has appeared in Gridskipper, the Huffington Post, Nextbook, The Forward, Parisist, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and the Paris Voice. She is the author of the novel IN DORSODURO, which is currently under representation by Diana Finch, and is at work on novel number two, set in present-day Paris.

Il y a longtemps j'ai perdu cette lutte et donc ma capacité d'imaginer, d'inventer dans mon écriture, mais, for what it's worth.. both you and your blog have given me the courage to move to France and to try to see life with new eyes. Thank you so much for everything that you have contributed to your blog and to the lives of your readers.

Lauren, I'm sorry you're down and discouraged about your blog, but you've got so much that's important going on in your life (my knowledge of which, of course, comes only from reading your blog) that it's hard to know the value of keeping on with it for the sake of keeping on. As a reader, I value your writing, photos, commentary very much and I wanted to let you know I'll miss them.